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Over the centuries, kings and caliphs and the archbishop of Canterbury all tried to ban chess. Now it's schoolteachers' great hope — and St. Louis schoolkids' new sport
By Jeannette Cooperman
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Pricey practice space and ProTools helped fuel the explosion of basement solo projects — but that's not the only perk of being a one-man band
By Jordan Oakes
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And why have these guys been playing it for six decades?
By Byron Kerman
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A St. Louis novelist reflects on ancestry, race, DNA testing and hyphenation
By Rick Skwiot
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An invitation to drive a $500K boat? No-brainer, right? Not so much
By Sarah Truckey
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Elsie Parker and the Poor People of Paris are fluent in French
By Steve Pick
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A native son plays shoot-'em-up in a new miniseries from the creators of The Wire
By Margaret Bauer
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Author and journalist
By Jeannette Cooperman
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Miss Jim Dandy
By Stefene Russell
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South county's Jordan Rackley goes Hollywood this month in An American Girl
By Matthew Halverson
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It was arguably the most destructive flood in American history, inundating nine states over the spring, summer and early fall of 1993
Interviews by Matthew Halverson
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COCA teaches you to unlock your inner actor, aerialist, artist or rock star
By Jeannette Cooperman
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The Wash. U. math whiz can't dribble, but why should that stop him from going pro?
By Matthew Halverson
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Mark Aschen wants to take you higher this month
By Byron Kerman
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Getting personal with St. Louis' elder statesmen of the organ, Ernie Hays and Stan Kann
By Rob Levy
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How a recreational rounder put his fates in the hands of the poker gods and took a trip to the river for one last score
By Mike DeFilippo
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And what might our man-of-the-people mayor do if he got there?
By Bryan A. Hollerbach
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But the question is whether Faun Collett has what it takes to follow through on her dream of using dogs to help at-risk young men
By Jeannette Cooperman
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For most of us, this question prompts a single answer
By David A. Murray
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How do you make a movie in 48 hours? Very quickly
By Byron Kerman
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Teddy Presberg returns to his roots
By Steve Pick
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The Missouri Film Commission is getting a financial shot in the arm that could make it easier to lure Hollywood directors in search of inexpensive shooting locales to the state and — better yet...
By Matthew Halverson
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He's affable, approachable and an all-around good guy, but surely a new $10 million contract will ruin St. Louis' biggest hometown hero, right? Don't bet on it
By Ed Condran
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Grilly Girls
By Stefene Russell
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If Gallery 210 isn't on your radar, it's time to adjust your antenna
By Elizabeth Wolfson
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New Line Theatre brings St. Louis audiences High Fidelity's first production outside of New York
By Thomas Crone
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Step into the hothouse with Butterfly House docent Lois Cromwell
By Byron Kerman
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This month, James-Hatter's Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri moves into the old Woolworth Building and begins a new chapter
By Shera Dalin
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When the Cards are away, Dave Matthews and the Black Crowes will play
By Margaret Bauer
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Before his long and decorated career at Wash. U., Gus Schonfeld was a young boy, a prisoner, at Auschwitz.
By Jeannette Cooperman
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A peek behind the curtain at one of St. Louis’ best-loved musical theater companies
By Margaret Bauer
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Forget the hand crank—The Gramophone has taken the effort out of the search for a diverse live music offering in St. Louis
By Ryan Miller
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Put the defibrillator away—St. Louis' club scene needs no artificial resuscitation
By Elizabeth Wolfson
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This humble marksman proves that home is where the dart is
By Byron Kerman
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In the dusk of their lives, our clean-living parents may be leaving us in the dust
By Margaret Bauer
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Those foul-mouthed puppets from Avenue Q have got nothing' on Anna Paniccia's creature creations
By Sarah Truckey
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A local farmer looks for love in reality TV
By Matthew Halverson
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Zootopia
By Stefene Russell
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Celebrated young dancer Antonio Douthit comes home to St. Louis with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, to give us a taste of what has New York critics raving
By Stefene Russell
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What can an ages-old spear point tell us about our ancestors? And more important, what can it tell us about ourselves?
By Dave Lowry
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At least not in Illinois. Trainers at Fairmount Park are facing an uncertain future
By Matthew Halverson
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We Like Mike
By Stefene Russell
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High-end Modernist houses in Grand Center? You'd better believe it
By Stefene Russell
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Playwright Cristina Pippa used oral histories and her own outsider's perspective to tell the story of the 50,000 Bosnians who now call St. Louis home
By Sarah Truckey
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Maybe you're familiar with the St. Louis tradition of "lawn geese"—concrete birds dressed in Uncle Sam suite, sparkly gowns or country bonnets, which stand sentinel on porches around the metro...
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Need to get a day off of work this spring? Talk to the expert on acting ill
By Byron Kerman
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We'll admit it: We're a little bitter about the fact that Philly beat us out for the new Major League Soccer team.
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But the young-at-heart founder of Dave Simon's Rock School also wants his students to learn a thing or two about growing up
By Sarah Truckey
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This little lifter shows us you don't have to be big to be strong
By Byron Kerman
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When is a test-drive really a stress drive? When the car costs $1.5 million
By Matt Crossman
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Yo-yo master Kevin Eulalia is in it to spin it this month
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Artistic Director for the Saint Louis Ballet
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This month's Master the Met gives "I'll take the stairs" a whole new meaning
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Dear NCAA: We'd like you to consider including these three head-to-head wrestling matchups in this month's wrestling championships at Scottrade...
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If the robots end up taking over, you can probably blame this North County teen
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For Rawle Jefferds and a handful of oyster aficionados, shucking and slurping is serious business
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Will a monstrous vocab finally score him a win?
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Dem trombones...
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The art of literary translation is famously underappreciated. But St. Louisans Philip Boehm and Pamela Carmell are feeling a little more love lately.
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For musician Mitsuyoshi Saito, the crystalline, ever-flowing sound of his cello is nothing less than a fountain of tranquility.
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A curator's-eye view of "Grounded," a video and photography collaboration between Ellen Curlee Gallery and St. Louis Earth Day.
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Seventeen years, 14 guitarists, seven keyboardists and eight drummers later, The Schwag keeps rollin' down Shakedown Street, paying tribute to the Grateful Dead
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Florals + high art = a good time
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Founder of EnTeam
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Trina Whitener makes animal noises for a living—and hangs out with birds that are almost bigger than she is.
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Thomas Crone on slowing down, growing up and mellowing out to mix tapes of yore
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One of Grand Center’s major corners—Grand and Olive—is getting a makeover and is poised to become its own little “intersection of art and life”
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In 2007, composer, musician, professor and publisher Barbara Harbach debuted a movie score, a stage musical and two new choral works. And that’s what she calls a slow year
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Send your kid to Wash. U.—just don't expect him to get a lot of reading done
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Now that the season's over, Monday morning quarterbacks want to lay the blame for the Rams' woes at the fledgling coach's feet. But the problems start a lot higher up the food chain.
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The gloves come off in this battle of little big men
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A local Ph.D. scales a phantasmal family tree
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How about $70,359.94?
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The Highway 40 shutdown has inspired more than just dread in some local commuters. We test-drive some of the websites that the project has spawned
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The police have their eyes on you, St. Louis
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Chief of the Belleville Police Department
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Meet the individuals, businesses and organizations that are doing the most to sustain our city—and our planet
By Margaret Bauer, Jeannette Cooperman, Shera Dalin, Maud Kelly, Stefene Russell and Stephen Schenkenberg
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A chip's-eye view of the riverfront's latest house of cards
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Who needs the Bahamas when you've got a behemoth like this?
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Pro beach volleyball? In St. Louis? In January?
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Some resolutions for some of our most illustrious and industrious stars of politics, press and pigskin
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Does Google have its eye on digitizing St. Louis?
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Poet Dana Goodyear peeps into a Bissinger’s sugar egg “like a pair of binoculars” to reflect on her childhood home in the Central West End—and her fascination with everything tiny
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Elizabeth Wolfson sits down with the winners of the 2008 Contemporary Art Museum Great Rivers Biennial for one-on-one discussions about their work, their process and what they’ll unveil in February
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By Martha K. Baker, Margaret Bauer, Jeannette Cooperman, Bryan A. Hollerbach, Christy Marshall, Stefene Russell and Stephen Schenkenberg
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Windows, 1.0
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Maplewood-Richmond Heights' superintendent speaks on tough issues.
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We asked nearly a dozen St. Louisans to recount for us their brushes with death, out-of-the-ordinary experiences, and extraordinary jobs. Here's what they told us.
Edited by Matthew Halverson
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In Missouri during the American Civil War, the connections forged by family, church and neighborhood would be erased with a single question: Union or Secesh?
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The Christmas tree's biggest fans are getting aggressive this year
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Dear Hollywood: Why stop at turning 3 Nights in August into one movie when you can go for a cinematic triple play?
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After visiting a big city like, say, New York, one is reminded that St. Louis is quaint—and, in its own little way, better than such large sprawls of humanity.
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By Margaret Bauer
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Sports and poetry—oil and water, right? Not so, suggests this Southeast Missouri prof
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They won't be open at 11 p.m. on December 24. But artist-run holiday markets offer gifts so lovely, you could almost skip the wrapping
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When you're in the mood for dance—moving your own feet, not watching someone else's—St. Louis offers a plethora of options, whether you're into jumpstyle or the Lindy Hop
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This fall, Ken Burns’ The War brought the internment of Japanese-Americans back into America’s consciousness. Painter and ceramicist Arthur Towata, who survived the camps himself, bears...
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